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Friends Ask Quaker Oats to Change Its Name

Citing concerns about cultural appropriation, 28 Friends and allies have signed an epistle to Quaker Oats Sharlee DiMenichi

Berks County immigrant detention center closing, nearly all detainees released

On November 30, 2022, Berks County, Pa. officials announced that the ICE agency will end its contract with the county. FJ News Editors

Alaskan Quakers apologize to Alaskan Natives for Indian boarding schools

On September 30, 2022—during an event for Orange Shirt Day, a day of remembrance for the harms caused by the… FJ News Editors

Quaker organizations issue joint statement on peace testimony and Ukraine

On October 26, eight Quaker organization heads issued a joint statement on the peace testimony and Ukraine. The statement notes:… FJ News Editors

Transatlantic Quaker action protests Vanguard’s environmental impacts

Quakers on both sides of the Atlantic joined together on October 7—the 250th anniversary of the death of American Quaker… FJ News Editors

Fire destroys Lindi Friends School in Nairobi, Kenya

On the evening of Sunday, July 24, a fire destroyed Lindi Friends School, run by Nairobi Yearly Meeting, in the… FJ News Editors

Historic peace activism sailboat Golden Rule to make another voyage

From 1946 to 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands displacing Indigenous inhabitants and spreading… FJ News Editors

Friends Academy students fold 2,977 peace cranes to honor 9/11 victims

In June, after ten months of folding origami paper cranes, students at Friends Academy in Locust Valley, N.Y., completed 2,977… FJ News Editors

Inner Light Books joins Barclay Press

The operations of Quaker publishing house Inner Light Books will be carried on by Barclay Press following the retirement of… FJ News Editors

19 Friends launch a call to action in response to threats to U.S. democracy

A nationwide group of Friends launched Quaker Call to Action, “an invitation to a national dialogue on the urgent threats… FJ News Editors

Scattergood-style hostel launches in Germany for Ukranian refugees

When Ukrainian war refugees began to appear in central Germany in February, Bad Langensalza resident Michael Luick-Thrams had a plan.… FJ News Editors

Swastikas spray-painted at Haddonfield Meeting’s graveyard

On the morning of Friday, April 1, members of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting discovered two swastikas spray-painted on trees located on… FJ News Editors

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